Blue Power Employment Program
Damion Martin retrieving yarn for use in mop production
NYCIB's Blue Power Training program prepares visually impaired or blind employees to be "Job-Ready" for jobs within the community.
To learn more, download brochure.
Since we opened our doors in 1996 as an active and growing manufacturing company, we have been recruiting, screening, evaluating, training and employing legally blind men and women in a variety of blue collar positions including:
- Machine Operators
- Assembly & Packaging
- Shipping/Receiving/Warehousing
- Maintenance/Janitorial/Porter
- Office/clerical jobs (receptionist, data entry, customer service)
We train Blue Power candidates in our facility, assuring that they can meet our requirements and standards before we assure you, our customer, that our trainees are "job ready" to meet your expectations.
Blue Power trainees leave our facility with the knowledge and job skills needed, confident they are job ready.
Our Placement Process
All Blue Power candidates are put through an extensive screening, qualification and job-training process
Our Job Placement Specialist will work directly with our customer and/or their designated staff members to become familiar with the company's work environment and specific job requirements.
Once we fully understand our customer's needs, we will:
- Select the most appropriate trainee
- Modify their general training program as needed to match specific job description
- Perform on-the-job training in similar operational areas within our own company's active manufacturing and warehousing departments
- Provide our customer with a " job-ready" employee who will be productive on day one
- Continue to assist your staff and our trainee as needed
Other Services
Co-Worker Education: We will meet with your staff to address any concerns and questions they have about their new visually-impaired co-worker in a relaxed, open and educational manner.
"Job Saves": If any of your current employees are experiencing performance problems due to recent changes in their own vision, we can do full assessments of their problems and discuss with you and the individual what corrective actions could be taken to regain most or all lost productivity.
For more information about the Blue Power Placement Program, contact Mark D'Altorio at (718)854-7300 ext.
